Vendée, La, a dep. of France, on the Bay of Biscay, S. of Loire-Inférieure; marshy on the W., wooded on the N., and with an open fertile tract in the middle and S.; it is famous as the seat of a stubborn resistance to the Revolution, and for the bloody violence with which it was suppressed.
Population (circa 1900) given as 442,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Velasquez, Diego de Silva * Vendémiaire